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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






2. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






3. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






4. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






5. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






6. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






7. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






8. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






9. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






10. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






11. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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12. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






13. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






14. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






15. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






16. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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17. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






18. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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19. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






20. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






21. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






22. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






23. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






24. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






25. Whole body learning






26. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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27. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






28. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






29. Academic Language Therapy Association






30. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






31. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






32. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






33. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






34. Multisensory Structured Language Education






35. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






36. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






37. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






38. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






39. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






40. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






41. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






42. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






43. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






44. Final stable syllable

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45. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






46. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






47. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






48. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






49. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






50. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.